Two of the three former members of Italian terrorist and far-left organizations wanted by authorities since Wednesday have been handed over to French justice. They are Luigi Bergamin and Rafaele Ventura.
Luigi Bergamin “went with his lawyer to the court of appeals this morning (Thursday) this morning” in Paris, a court source said, confirming an information from the Italian news agency Ansa.
Rafaele Ventura later went to the Paris Court of Appeals with his lawyer, said a source close to the case, information confirmed by a judicial source.
Seven former members of Italian terrorist and far-left organizations living in France and wanted by Italy were arrested yesterday, Wednesday. Another, Mauricio Di Marcio, is wanted.
According to the Italian police, the Luigi Bergamine, born in August 1948 near Padua, in Venice (north), was sentenced to 16 years, 11 months and one day in prison, mainly for gang membership and prominent murders, by a police officer, Andreas Campania, who was killed in Milan in 1979 and of a prison officer, Antonio Santoro, who was killed in Udine by writer Cesare Batiste.
French justice had refused to extradite him in the early 1990s.
THE Rafaele Ventura has been sentenced, according to Italian media, to the murder of a police officer, Antonio Custra, in May 1977 in Milan.
The operation against former members of Italian terrorist and far-left organizations living in France was carried out at the request of the Italian authorities. It targeted a total of ten people who had taken refuge in France and all of whom had been sentenced to Italy for terrorist acts committed in the 1970s and 1980s.
The operation was welcomed by the Italian authorities, but was reported in France by the lawyers of the arrested and the Human Rights Union.
According to sources close to the case, the nine Italians appeared in court today, after hearing the seven arrested yesterday by the anti-terrorist service.
The Paris Court of Appeals is expected to decide within the day whether they will be released pending judicial review pending the examination of their Italian extradition requests, according to these sources.
A first public hearing is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 5, according to sources close to the case.
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